As soon as Xue Baochai gave the order, a few subordinates of the Imperial City Guards surrounded Lu Wushuang. Lu Wushuang's expression changed several times before he finally gave up resisting, "Fine, I'll go with you. The Lu Clan won't let you accuse me."
Song Qingshu, who was in the dark, frowned. He could tell that Lu Wushuang was hinting for him not to show up. After all, if his identity was exposed, there would be a lot of trouble.
He knew that Lu Wushuang had always been reckless, but now she was so considerate and considerate. He couldn't help but feel touched.
At this time, the guards had already taken Lu Wushuang away. The other people in the Lu family also received the news. They were all angry and wanted to find the guard of Shanyin City for an explanation.
Of course, Song Qingshu didn't go with them. He was deep in thought. It wasn't difficult to save Lu Wushuang. It wasn't difficult for him to deal with the guards. What was difficult was what to do next.
If he used force to save Lu Wushuang, wouldn't she be a suspect? Then she would be wanted by the court. She would be unable to return to her home and could only hide in the dark.
The key is how to clear her suspicion. Song Qingshu thought for a while and quickly came up with a plan.
Xue Baochai brought Lu Wushuang back to the base of the Imperial City Department in Shanyin and immediately interrogated her, "That night, did you and your cousin go to Shen Yuan?"
Lu Wushuang opened her mouth but suddenly thought that if she admitted it, there would be a lot of trouble.
As if guessing what she was thinking, Xue Baochai snorted, "You don't need to deny it. We have found a witness and confirmed that you did go to Shen Yuan that night."
Lu Wushuang raised her chin and said angrily, "Why ask if you know? Yes, we went to Shen Yuan that night because Bijun is a good friend of ours. This time, she disappeared, so we went to Shen Yuan to find some clues. "
"Find clues?" Xue Baochai didn't comment on her answer, "Then why did you disappear when the constables arrived?"
Lu Wushuang explained, "We were just worried that meeting the constables would cause unnecessary trouble, so we deliberately avoided them." She didn't want to involve Song Qingshu, so she simply ignored some information.
"But you didn't return to the Lu fu that night," Xue Baochai crossed her arms in front of her chest, circling around her and scrutinizing her. "According to the recollections of the soldiers guarding the city, the two of you only returned to the city the next morning. I sent someone to ask the servant girls in the Lu fu and they confirmed that you didn't return that night. Tell me, why did you leave the city? "
"We …" Lu Wushuang didn't know what to say. She suddenly remembered the scene in the stream that night and had an idea. "We went out of the city to take a bath."
"Bath?" Xue Baochai's eyes sharpened. "You just found out that your good friend's family was killed. Not only did you not report it to the authorities, but you still have the mood to take a bath? I'm afraid he was covered in blood and went out of the city to destroy evidence. "
"Nonsense!" Lu Wushuang panicked. "I told you that we're friends with Bijun. Why would we hurt her family?"
"Maybe you deliberately approached Miss Shen for the secret of the mandarin duck knife and became friends with her." The suspicion in Xue Baochai's eyes grew stronger. "Is Miss Shen's disappearance related to you?"
Because Shen Bijun was the future Crown Princess, the Imperial City Department was under a lot of pressure. But there had been no progress in the case. Now that they finally found a clue, how could they not pursue it?
"Don't slander others. Don't try to frame good people just because you can't solve the case." Lu Wushuang had always been very picky and couldn't help retorting.
"Frame?" Xue Baochai snorted. "We found that after you entered the city, you went to an inn in the east of the city and took some things as a gift. According to the inn owner, those things were left by a man and a woman. Are they your accomplices?"
Lu Wushuang was secretly shocked. She didn't expect her investigation to be so thorough. She even found out that they went back to the inn to take the things for Song Qingshu and Huang Rong.
Xue Baochai moved in front of her and said step by step, "Did the few of you work together to create the massacre of the Shen family? Then you sent them out of the city and came back to remove the evidence?"
Seeing that there were more and more flaws in their story, Lu Wushuang suddenly panicked. She subconsciously replied, "We are also victims, okay? When we rushed to Shen Yuan that day, the murderer just happened to come out. We were no match for him, so that person gave us poison. Luckily, he heard the bailiffs rushing over and the murderer didn't care about us and hurriedly ran away. The two of us sisters were about to die from the poison, but our friend saved us, so we left the city."
Although she was panicking, she was still a bit clever. She told the story with seventy percent truth and thirty percent lies.
Xue Baochai was indeed moved, "You said that you saw the murderer? What did the murderer look like? "
"The murderer was wearing a mask so we couldn't see his face. He was about thirty or forty years old and had a tall figure …" Lu Wushuang recalled as she described.
Xue Baochai quickly ordered her subordinates, "Write it down!"
After listening to Lu Wushuang's description, Xue Baochai suddenly asked, "What poison were you poisoned with?" With her experience in the Imperial City Department, she knew that if a person lied, many details would definitely be wrong.
"I was poisoned by the Nine Nine Pill and my cousin was poisoned by the Fire Pill," Lu Wushuang answered without hesitation.
"This seems to be a poison from the Island of Heroes." A secret agent at the side whispered to Xue Baochai. Although the Island of Heroes was mysterious, the Imperial City Department was a secret agent of a country. They more or less knew some information about the Island of Heroes.
Xue Baochai raised her eyebrows. At this time, she already believed eighty percent of the story. After all, Lu Wushuang was a daughter of a rich family. If she didn't experience it herself, how could she know anything about the Island of Heroes?
"But as far as I know, the Nine Nine Pill and the Fire Pill are extremely poisonous. How did you survive?" Xue Baochai continued to ask.
"I told you that our friend saved us. That's why we returned to the city the next day," Lu Wushuang answered.
"What is the name of your friend? How did he cure these two strange poisons?" Xue Baochai thought that if she was poisoned by one of the two poisons, she probably wouldn't be able to force the poison out.
Lu Wushuang snorted. "My cousin's master is the famous Eastern Heretic Huang Yaoshi. He is an expert in alchemy. Naturally, her friend is also an expert in this field. What's so strange about curing poisons?"
Xue Baochai had also investigated Cheng Ying's background and knew that she was Huang Yaoshi's last disciple. She agreed with Lu Wushuang's words, but she didn't plan to let her go so easily. "You still haven't told us who your two friends are. We will find them to verify if you are telling the truth."
Lu Wushuang was shocked and hurriedly said, "They have something important to do. I promised not to reveal their information."
Xue Baochai wanted to ask more questions, but suddenly, a secret agent rushed in and reported, "Report, a masked man appeared in the Shen garden. He seems to be looking for something." After the incident at the Shen garden, the Imperial City Department secretly set up sentries near the Shen garden. Originally, they were just going through the motions. They didn't expect the murderer to come back, but now there was an unexpected surprise.
Xue Baochai instantly stood up. "Did you alert him?"
The secret agent replied, "No, according to Daren's instructions, everything is being observed in secret."
"Good, everyone, follow me!" Xue Baochai waved her hand and led the secret agents of the Imperial City Department in the direction of the Shen garden, leaving Lu Wushuang alone.
"What are the characteristics of the masked man?" As they rushed to the Shen garden, Xue Baochai asked the subordinate from before.
"Wearing a mask, tall and slender, about thirty or forty years old …" Following the secret agent's description, Xue Baochai was even more shocked because it was exactly the same as what Lu Wushuang had described.
"Everyone, follow him. This time, we can't let him escape!" Xue Baochai's eyes flashed with excitement. After investigating the Shen family case, the murderer's fox tail had finally been revealed.
Fortunately, the secret base of the Imperial City Department was not too far from the Shen garden. Very quickly, a group of people arrived at the Shen garden. The masked man clearly realized that something was wrong and quickly ran outside, coincidentally bumping into Xue Baochai's group.
"Capture him!" Xue Baochai's heart was excited, but her commands were very orderly. The secret agents of the Imperial City Department blocked off all the escape routes of the enemy.
The crossbows of the Song Dynasty were unparalleled in the world, and the crossbows used by the Imperial City Department were one in ten thousand. With a group of people pointing their crossbows at the enemy, the enemy would not be able to escape even if he had wings.
"Hurry up and surrender, and I'll spare your life!" As long as Xue Baochai lowered her hand that was halfway raised, the crossbows would fire ten thousand arrows. No matter how high the enemy's martial arts were, they would not be able to dodge at such a close distance.
The masked man gave a cold snort. His figure flashed and he disappeared from the center. In the next moment, everyone found that he had jumped out of the encirclement of the crossbowmen.
"How is this possible!" Not only Xue Baochai, but all the secret agents of the Imperial City Department had the same thought. Could it be that their eyes were playing tricks on them?
The masked man did not stop at all. He quickly attacked the crossbowmen from behind to prevent them from forming another encirclement. At such a close distance, the crossbows in their hands became a burden. Screams rang out incessantly, and a large number of the secret agents of the Imperial City Department were instantly killed.
Xue Baochai was both shocked and angry. With a shout, she pulled out her dagger and stabbed it at the man, giving her subordinates a chance to breathe and begin to regroup.
The two sides exchanged more than ten moves in an instant. The more Xue Baochai fought, the more shocked she became. If it were not for the many experts of the Imperial City Department helping her, she would have already been defeated. The martial arts of the man in front of her were extremely strange. It did not seem to be the martial arts of the Central Plains.
"It really is someone from the Isle of Heroes!" Xue Baochai recalled a scroll about the Isle of Heroes that she had occasionally seen in the past and recognized the martial arts of the other party.
But in this moment of distraction, the other party instantly closed in on her. Xue Baochai was shocked and hurriedly retreated, but it was too late. The other party instantly circled behind her and grabbed her neck.
"Little beauty, tell them all to stop." The masked man said in a low muffled voice.
Unexpectedly, Xue Baochai's eyes flashed with a trace of determination. She reversed the dagger in her hand and stabbed it at her lower abdomen, trying to die with the other party. Looking at this posture, it was similar to the Wu Dang Sect's Living with the Heavens and Earth.
"Damn it!" The masked man obviously did not expect her to do this. He hurriedly stretched out his hand and caught the dagger when it was only a centimeter away from Xue Baochai's lower abdomen.
This masked man was naturally Song Qingshu. In order to clear the suspicion of Lu Wushuang, he simply disguised himself as the murderer that night and appeared in the Shen Garden. As expected, there were also secret agents of the Imperial City Department here. Xue Baochai and the others were also lured here according to the plan.
But he did not expect Xue Baochai to be so decisive. She almost died in his arms, which was a great sin.
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